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Nils Gustaf Lindgren Nils Gustaf Lindgren Just some personal info regarding Yours truly, the shrink hacker ...

Born in a state of innocence 1949. Grew in wisdom and height and am currently 6'6". Entered med school 1968, same autumn failed to see significance of learning programming in Algol as a side project. First job as actual doctor in Psychiatric Clinic, Lund University Hospital (alma mater, right?) which set the one life path. Encountered Commodore-64 in son 1986, and immediately recognised the potential of Commodore ROM_BASIC as _the_way_to_go_; purchased a XT clone (with a hard drive of 20 MB, no less) February 1987, hence putting me solidly on the second life path. Almost immediately started building databases except did not know that was what I was doing; was very pleased with finding out about random access files and recognised this might lead to something. Switched to C when I grew tired of hitting limit of code size in GW-BASIC. Wrote stupid applications for betterment of general health, and found that people were willing to pay money for programming! Also earned the sobriquet Dr Chips from work mates 1989, which has stuck as the name of my company. Same year met Bwana Arnesjö who taught me everything I did not teach myself except what they told me in the Paradox newsgroup. Bwana ordered me off C since he thought it had too many types of weird bracket - this is a literal quote. Also gave me a good salary for writing code and learning ObjectVision, rules based expert systems, and Paradox for Windows, when that finally arrived (severly delayed, BTW). Hung out on CompuServe (remember CompuServe?) with the nick shrink hacker since that was what I was, and still is. Took an interest in Internet c. 1993 but gave it up as obviously of little interest, and stuck to building medical data aquisition applications. 1996 switched allegiances and joined Asst Prof Ulf Malm in a project concerning treatment of patients suffering from schizophrenia. Currently running a private practice with 1400 visits a year while, at the same time, completeing my Ph D with Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Gothenburg) - working title, "Optimising Schizophrenia Care using Information Technology".

At one time I developed an interactive system to interview patients with schizophrenia and their relatives concerning their relations - this was an interactive program, where the patient entered all the data him/herself. My collaborator was even taller and definitely heavier than I am, which earned this work the OE name "ealdar enten geweorc" (the work of cunning giants). The application folded, but I still use the expression which I find amusing.

I have endeavoured to find better ways of entering patient data, experimented with (and programmed) handheld PC´s (PSION 3x), but currently I am approaching this problem from a statistical view point, by trying to find out which variables contain any actual relevance, and which are redundant.

I have created systems that log the access of data in the databases continually - this is from a legal viewpoint an absolute necessity. Also written some statistical modules and a report toolkit - this to avoid my users having to deal with raw tables and the Paradox query system. If the users start accessing the tables through the Paradox native menus, the logging system breaks down, or is, at least, useless. This is also the reason I have taken an interest in client/server systems - unfortunately, I haven´t the time to delve into them.

Obviously, I don´t market my programming in a normal way. I am rather the guy who apart from being a psychiatrist, also knows loads of handling databases, and who can be fruitfully asked about ideas for employing computers in academic psychiatry. Chances are good that any idea you have, I tested it 4 years ago.

Nils Gustaf
shrink hacker
ealdar enten geweorc


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